CLAUDIA DEMONTE
EDUCATION
M.F.A., Catholic University of America, Washington, DC
B.A., College of Notre Dame of Maryland, Baltimore, MD
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2016 The Art of Making the Invisible Visible: A Retrospective by Claudia DeMonte, Sarah Isom
Center for Women and Gender Studies at the University of Mississippi, University MS
2014 Claudia Demonte Works, Cullis Wade Depot Art Gallery, Mississippi University, MS
A Woman’s Work is Never Done, Five Points Gallery, Torrington, CT
La Forza Del Destino, June Kelly Gallery, New York, NY
OBJECTS:MMAA, Minnesota Museum of American Art, St. Paul, MN
2012 Abundance: Sculpture and Installation, Cora Miller Gallery, York College of Pennsylvania
2011 Claudia DeMonte: Retrospective, York College Art Galleries, York College of Pennsylvania
Claudia DeMonte: Real Beauty, Cecille R. Hunt Gallery, Webster University, St. Louis,
MO
Self and the Everywoman: Mixed Media Works by Claudia DeMonte, Trustman Art Gallery, Simmons College, Boston, MA
2010 Claudia DeMonte, Nordstrand Gallery, Wayne St. University, Wayne, NE
Real Beauty, Mobile Museum of Art, Mobile, Alabama
Real Beauty, Katzen Center for the Arts, American University, Wash., D.C.
Claudia DeMonte, Heffernon Gallery, West Valley Art Museum, Surprise, AZ
The Luxury of Exercise: Small Sculpture and Works on Paper by Claudia
DeMonte, Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson, MS
Claudia DeMonte: A Retrospective, Nordstrand Visual Arts Gallery, Wayne State College, Wayne, NE
2009 Claudia DeMonte: Retrospective, University of New Haven, West Haven, CT
Claudia DeMonte: The Luxury of Exercise, June Kelly Gallery, New York, NY; monograph with an essay by Eleanor Heartney and foreword by Agnes Gund, published by Pomegranate Books, San Francisco, CA
Everyday Matters, Flint Institute of Art, Flint, MI
Claudia DeMonte, Jan Colle Gallery, Ghent, Belgium
2008 Claudia DeMonte: Real Beauty, Kasser Family Exhibition, The Gottesman
Libraries, Teachers College, Columbia University, New York, NY
2007 Empowered Objects: Sculpture, June Kelly Gallery, New York, NY; catalogue
Claudia DeMonte, Okaloosa Walton College Art Center, Niceville, FL Mapping Beauty: 3 decades of installations, Makan Gallery, Amman, Jordan
2006 A Couple of Litchfield County Artists, Silo Gallery, New Milford, CT
Claudia DeMonte: A Silhouette, Selected Works, 1976-2005, University of Maryland, College Park, MD; brochure
Claudia DeMonte, Women’s Art Gallery, Cincinnati, OH
2005 Claudia DeMonte, Contemporary Art Center, New Orleans, LA
Claudia DeMonte, Cole Pratt Gallery, New Orleans, LA
2004 Retrospective, Tallinn Kunstihoone, Tallinn, Estonia
Claudia DeMonte, Gerdunberg Cultural Center, Reykjavik, Iceland
Personal Journeys, Salem College, Winston Salem, NC
New Work, Osuna Gallery, Bethesda, MD
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2016 "Presence," Atrium Gallery, St. Louis, MO
"From the Racks," Atrium Gallery, St. Louis, MO
2015 “Dimensional,” Atrium Gallery, St. Louis, MO
“She’s a Changeling,” The Harts Gallery, New Milford CT
“In Conversation,” University of New Haven’s Seton Gallery, New Haven, CT
“Women in the Atrium,” Atrium Gallery, St. Louis, MO
“Fertility,” 33 Orchard, New York, NY
2014 “Golden Egg,” Fabergé Big Egg Hunt, New York City
2014 “Intimate,” Atrium Gallery, St. Louis, MO
2012 “AAF-Los Angeles”, Atrium Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2011 “SILVER,” 25th Anniversary show, Atrium Gallery, St. Louis, MO
The Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection: Fifty Works for Maine, Portland Museum of Art, ME
2010 Vogel 50x50: Selections From the Nevada Collection, Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection: Fifty Works for Fifty States, Donna Beam Fine Art Gallery , University of Las Vegas, Nevada
The Herbert and Dorothy Vogel Collection, Fifty works for Fifty States, Portland Art Museum, ME
An Economy of Means: The Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection, University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, MI,
Roots and Branches (Radici e Rami), AOC 58 Gallery, Associazione Operati Culturali Flaminia 58,Via Flaminia 58,00196, Roma
2009 The Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection: Fifty Works for Fifty States, Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, NE
2007 Mirror on the Wall Reflecting Female Interpretations of Beauty, Union Art Gallery, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI
Marriage of True Minds, Art Gallery at University of New England, Portland, ME
Femmes batisseuses: 12 artistes etrangers exposent a Maurice, La Galerie d’art de l’ Institut Mahatma Gandhi de Maurice, Mauritius, British Commonwealth
2006 draw drawing 2: London Biennial, The Foundry, England
Unity Canvas, Port Authority Bus Terminal, New York
45 Litchfield County Artists, Bachelier-Cardonsky Gallery, Kent, CT
2005 City Art, Center for Architecture, New York; book
2004 draw drawing: London Biennial, Gallery 32, England
Domesticity, Locus Media Gallery, New York, NY
Bookmark Exchange, L’ Atelier Kasba, Brussels, Belgium
Twenty-five Years, Barbara Gillman Gallery, Miami, FL
Masters Mystery, Florida International Gallery, Miami, FL
SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Academy of the Arts, Easton, Maryland
Bass Museum of Art, Miami Beach, FL
Bellvue Hospital
Best Products
Boca Raton Museum, FL
Brooklyn Museum. NY
Centrum Szfuzi, Warsaw, Poland
Citibank, Corcoran Gallery of Art
Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, DE
Exxon
Flint Institute of Art
Fort Lauderdale Museum
Frederick Weisman Art Museum, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Frederick Wright Gallery, UCLA
Grand Rapids Art Museum, MI
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
Hyatt Regency Hotels
Indianapolis Museum of Art, IN
Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, NE
Las Vegas Art Museum, NV
Minnesota Museum of American Art, Saint Paul, MN
Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson, MS
Mobile Museum of Art, AL
Museum of Art of Fort Lauderdale, FL
New Orleans Museum of Art, LA
Portland Museum of Art, ME
The Paterson Museum, NJ
Queens Museum of Art, Flushing Meadows, Corona Park, NY
Speed Art Museum, Louisville, KY
St. Louis University Museum of Art, St. Louis, MO
Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL
Stamford Museum and Nature Center, CT
Tucson Art Museum, AZ
Yellowstone Art Museum, Billings, MT
Flint Institute of Art, MI
Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
Brenau University Galleries, Simmons. Visual Arts Center, Gainesville, GA
University of California, Frederick S. Wright Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
University of Maryland, College Park, MD
University of Miami, Lowe Art Museum, FL
University of Minnesota, Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum, Minneapolis, MN
University of Michigan, Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, MI
New School for Social Research, New York, NY
Honolulu Academy of Art, HI
Contemporary Art Museum, Villa Rufolo, Ravello, Italy
Konin Museum, Poland
Museum Artystow, Lodz, Poland
Museum of Modern Art of Salerno, Italy
Sweenter Shoe Museum, Antwerp, Belgium
Warsaw Museum of Modem Art, Poland
University of Oldenburg, Germany
Hvidovre Art Library, Odder, Denmark
Centrum Szfuzi, Warsaw, Poland
Siemens Company, West Germany
SELECTED PRIVATE COLLECTIONS
Adriana and Robert Mnuchin
Agnes Gund
Barbara SahlmanCarol & Stan Nelson
Cherrie Nanninga and Reno Cappello
Gavin McCleod
Herb & Dorothy Vogel
Irving Sandler
Jack Nicholson
Marty Marguilies
Mary Ann Tighe and Dr. David Hidalgo
Ms. Richard Ekstract
Nancy and Steve Einhorn
Pam & Dick Cantor
Paul & EstelleBerg
Penny McCall
Richard Colton
Ruth Horiwich
Vera List
Veronica Hackett
Zena & Michael Wiener
SELECTED RECENT BIBLIOGRAPHY
2014 Clary, Jordan, “Inside the Faberge Big Egg Hunt: Meet three of the egg artists,” Sparkle.com, April 8.
Boughton, Kathryn, “Art With Conscience,” The Litchfield County Times, April 5.
Martin, Allison, “Claudia DeMonte examines the power of fate at Soho gallery”, NY Art Examiner, April 11.
2010 Reuters, “Reuters on Juarez exhibition,” Reuters Pictures, May 18
“Claudia DeMonte,” SPIKE: KUNSTMAGAZIN WEIN & BERLIN FRUHLING 2010 (AT Magazine & Berlin Spring 2010)
Timpane, John, “Art exhibit protests women’s mass murders in Mexico,” The Philadelphia Inquirer, May 13
Harrison, Thomas B., “Mississippi Museum of Art opens 3 eclectic, diverse exhibits,” Jackson, MI, April 18
2009 Heartney, Eleanor with Foreward by Agnes Gund, Claudia DeMonte, Pomegranate, San Francisco
Harari, Sara, “Claudia DeMonte,” Reviews New York, ARTnews, November
2007 Gerard McCarthy, “Claudia DeMonte at June Kelly,” Art in America,
p. 157, November
SELECTED AWARDS AND GRANTS
2014 One of three winners of the Fabergé Big Egg Hunt for “Golden Egg,” New York City
2014 “Best in Feminist Art & Scholarship” for the exhibition “La Forza del Destino” by the CAA Committee on Women in the Arts, New York
2006 Doctor of Humane Letters, Honoris, Causa, College of Santa Fe. NM
2005 Professor Emerita, University of Maryland, College Park, MD
Grant, Ennessi Foundation, Saudi Arabia
Grant, Cantor Family Foundation, New York
2003 Art Award, Mobile Museum of Art, AL
1999 Grant, Anchorage Foundation Inc. of Texas, Houston. TX
Arts Award Grant, Creative and Performing, University of Maryland,
College Park, MD
1998 Grant, Agnes Gund Foundation, New York Award, an Anonymous Foundation, New York
Arts Award, Euro-American Women’s Council, Athens, Greece
1997/98 Distinguished Scholar/Teacher, University of Maryland,
College Park, MD
COMMISSIONS
2006-08 Commitment to Valor, Courageous Rescue, Bravery for Others, and Heroic Protectors, cast stone sculpture sited in 4 fire houses, Broward County Fire Rescue, Florida Cultural Society, Ft. Lauderdale, FL
2004-06 Santa Rosa Fountain, cast stone sculpture, commissioned for the city of Santa Rosa by New Mexico State Arts, Santa Rosa, NM
2002-04 We Are One, stone sculpture, University of Northern Iowa, Iowa City, IA
2001 Untitled, outdoor wall relief sculpture, commissioned by Peter Marino, Architect, PLLC, Palm Beach, FL
1998 Socorro Wheel of History, bronze sculpture, commissioned by New Mexico State Arts, Socorro, NM
Wheel of Justice, bronze and stone sculpture with carved stone seating, commissioned by the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, Queens Supreme Court, Flushing Meadows
1993 Animal Count, ceramic tile mural, 30 feet, P.S. 51, commissioned by Percent for Art Program of the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs/School Construction Authority, Queens
1992 Fantasy Travels, acrylic and wood sculpture, Prudential Life Insurance, Parsippany, NJ
Claudia DeMonte Ceramic Tableware, Grazia Studios, Deruta, Italy
1990 Shrine to Learning, sculpture, mixed media, 8 feet x 6 feet x 4 feet, Clarendon Public Library, commissioned by Brooklyn Public Library System, Percent for Art Program of the New York City and Department of Cultural Affairs, NY
1984 Untitled, sculpture (acrylic and pulp paper), Hyatt Regency Hotel, Crystal City, V A
1981 Travel Fantasy, mural, acrylic on pulp, Prudential Life Insurance, Parsippany, NJ
1972 Untitled, (temporary installation), fabric, 100 feet x 30 feet, Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA; catalogue
1970 Mural, Bladen Hall, Prince George’s Community College, Largo, MD Mural, Astoria Park, Queens, New York City Park Department
CURATED EXHIBITIONS
2004-07 Real Beauty: A Celebration of Diversity and Global Culture, 140 handmade dolls by women artists from around the world; traveling exhibition; brochure
2000-07 Women of the World: A Global Collection of Art, works by women artists from 177 countries addressing the question, “What image depicts women?” Traveling to 22 venues worldwide; book based on the exhibition published by Pomegranate Books, San Francisco, CA
PROJECTS
2015 “Between the Lines: A Coloring Book by Contemporary Artists, Volume 5,” RxArt, October 2015.